Apparatus for generating radium water



March 6, 1928.

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ADOLPH DE CLAIRIVIONT, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

APPARATUS FOR GENERATING RADIUM WATER.

Application filed November This invention relates'to an apparatus for generating and dispensing radium water. The health giving properties of radium taken internally absorbed in water, are well known, but, so far as I am aware, no satisfactory apparatus has heretofore been devised by which radium water could be produced. Therefore, it is the primary object of the present invention to provide an apparatus by the use of which water may be caused to readily and rapidly absorb radium emanations from material carrying the same, and the water consumed while impregnated with the emanations.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and compact apparatus for t-he purpose of generating radium water, which apparatus may be readily supported upon a table and will occupy but little space and may be' manually operated, with little exertion, to cause the water introduced thereinto to absorb the radium emanations from an element of the apparatus which carries radium emanation material.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of the apparatus embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical transverse sectional View taken substantially on the line 2-2 of Figure 1, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

The apparatus is mounted upon a suitable base indicated by the numeral 1, and includes a generator 2 which may be made of any material found suitable for the purpose, l

such for example as metal or porcelain, terra cotta, aluminum, etc. The generator is divided interiorly into upper and lower compartments 3 and 4 respectively, by a circular filtering disc or slab 5 which is preferably of tripoli, the said filtering medium being peripherally supported upon a shoulder 6 within the generator 2 or otherwise held in place. In any event, the medium 5 is intended to close the lower chamber 4.

The invention contemplates creating a partial vacuum within the generator chamber 4 at one period in the eperation of the apparatus, and introducing air under pressure into said chamber at another period in the operation of the apparatus, and for this purpose a 'suction pump, indicated in general by the numeral 7, and a pressure pump, indicated in' general bythe numeral 8, are mounted upon the base 1 at opposite sides of 17, 1925. Serial N0. 69,719.

the generator. These pumps may be of'any of the well known types and the pump 7 comprises a cylinder 9 mounted in upright .position upon the base 1 and having an exhaust port 10k near its lower end controlled by a check valve 11; A piston 12 is mounted for reciprocation within the cylinder and comprises a rod 13 and head 14, the latter fitting within the cylinder in an air-tight manner and the former extending upwardly through the head 15 vof the cylinder and being provided with a handle 16 whereby reciprocatory motion may be readily imparted, manually, to the said piston. The piston is provided with a check valve 17 upon its under side controlling the passage of air 'through a port 18 'formed in the said head.

A tube 19 leads from` one side of the cylinder, at the upper end thereof and through the wall of the generator, downwardly through the upper chamber 3 thereof with its lower open end extending through the filtering medium 5, a manually operable cut Off valve 20 being interposed in said tube between the cylinder 9 and the generator 2. At this point it will be evident that by reciprocating the piston of the suction pump 7, air will be exhausted from the generating chamber 4, andr water which is Vintroduced into the reservoir or water chamber 3, will be caused to filter through the filtering medium 5. In this manner, filtering of the water to be impregnated by the radium emanations, is quickly accomplished and transferred to the generating chamber 4.

The pump 8 comprises a cylinder 21 having a piston 22 working therein and includ ing a head 23 and Stem 24, the latter being provided at its upper end with a handle 25 whereby the piston may be conveniently reciprocated within the cylinder. A pipe 26 is connected at its lower Vend through the lside of' the cylinder 21, at the lower end of the cylinder, and a check valve 27 controls the communication between the said pipe and the cylinder, the .valve being arranged .to provide for delivery of air under pressure through the pipe 26 and into the chamber 4 by way of a downwardly extending branch 28 of said pipe which opens through the filtering medium 5, a manually operable out off valve 29 being interposed in the pipe 26 between its upper end and the upper end of the branch 28. At this point, it will be evident that air under pressure may be forced -into thesgenerating chamber 4 by manually reciprocating the piston 22 of the pump 8.

The chamber 3 is closed at its top by a removable lid or cover l30. A pipe 3l' leads from a faucet 32 which is securedv in an opening in the wall of the water chamber 3 near the top thereo'hand the said pipe extends andV downwardly within this chamber through the iiltering medium VV and has its lower end presented closeto the bottoniY ot the generating chamber4 and at this point y it will'be evident that when there is air un"- prises a hollow open-ended cylinder 34 which is composed or formed of carnotite ore mixed with suitable binder of clay and molded and baked. This cylinder-,is disposed in upright position substantially centrally. upon lthe bottom of the generating chamber 4 and is formed with a number of pericorations indicated by the numeral 35,..

'In the operationy of the apparatus, the sucl tionpump 7 is operated to effect the filtering ofwater which has `been introduced into the water chamber or reservoir 3, into the gen- K erating ychamber 4, where it comes inscontact with thecylinder 34,`the cylinder being,'of

course, completely surrounded vby the. water as. there is free circulation through the openings 35 in the wall of `the cylinder. `The ,quantity of water introduced issuclithat the water level will be a short distance below the filtering medium .5, and, it found necessary,

the suction pump maybe again operated at this time so as to createa partial vacuum above the' w ater r level. It is `a wellknown fact th'at water willV notvr ret-ain .radium emanations for any considerable period of Vtimeand, in the Vuse ofthe apparatus,1tlie emanati ons will `form a coating` upon the wall oit the generating 'chamber 4.v Due to the Vpartial vacuum in the space above t-he water level in the generating chamber,v this space becomes charged with radium gas or emanations. When itis vdesired to obtain the radium impregnated water from the apparatus, the valve 20 beingv closed, the valve 29' is openedand the pressure pump is actuated until the partial vacuum within the generating chamber 4 hasbeen destroyed anda pres- 'sure has been built up in said chamber greater than atmospheric pressure. Then, when -the faucet 32 vis opened,'the outilow of water. from the generating chamber results in a 'y disturbance of the radium emanationsv in the space above the water therein,V thus ei'ectino impregnation of the water with the said emanations and', at the same time, effecting ,aerationr oit the water.

Having thus described the invention, what l claim is:A

l. ln apparatus for generating radium water, a generator'comprising a hollow body, a filtering medium dividingthe body interiorly into upper and lowerchambers, the upper rchamber constituting a 4reservoir for water to be impregnated with radium einanations,

a radium emanation-bearing medium in the lower chamber, means for creating a partial vacuum in the lowerchambei' wherebyto etfeet rapidv filtering:ofl the water from the upper to the lower chamber for intimatecontact ,with the said radium emanation-bearmg medium, a valved outlet lfrom the lower chamber, and means for destroying saidV partial vacuum within the lower chamber whereby to provide Yfor discharge of the mipregnated Awater from thesaid chamber.

v 2.4 ln apparatus'i'or generating radiuni'water, a generating chamber, a radium emanation-bearing medium in said chamber, a wat-er reservoir located Vabove the'chainber, a filtering medium interposed' between the said reservoir and .the said-chainber whereby lto iilter water delivered from the reservoir to the chamber, means iorA creating a partial vacuum `in said chamber, and vrmeans for destroying said partial vacuum whereby to providev fordscharge of the impregnated water from the chamber. Y 1

3. Apparatus for generating radium water comprising a closed hollow ybody, a iiltering vpartition dividing the body 'into an upper' storage compartment for water'and a lower generator compartment, a radio-active member in the generator compartment, a dispensing pipe leading through a side oi the body near the top thereof and VVextending ythrough the compartments and the iiltering partition and terminating adjacent the bottom ofthe generator compartment, a faucet at the delivery lendfot the dispensing pipe,

lotherpipes extendingthrough the sides ot the'body near the top tliercotand passing through the storage compartment andthe `filtering partitionfand terminating about in the plane of the lower side of the said partition, 'suction and pressure pumps connected 'to the last mentioned vpipes vrespectivelyk whereby a partial vacuum and pressure may be successively, independently established in the generating con'ipartment anda vcontrolling'valve in the length of each of the pipes between the body 4and pump.

` Y In testimonywhereoi' l aiiix my signature.

ADoLPH DE cLAiRMo-yr. [1.. s] 

